Mark Goldblatt
Mark Goldblatt is an American film editor and director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on Terminator 2: Judgement Day. He is a former President of the American Cinema Editors.
Life and career
Brooklyn-born Goldblatt studied at the University of Wisconsin and London Film School, where his instructors included Mike Leigh, Clive Donner and Frank Clarke. Upon his return to the United States, Goldblatt observed Alfred Hitchcock on the set of one of his final films, Family Plot, and became a PA at Roger Corman's New World Pictures, where he worked with up-and-coming filmmakers including Joe Dante and Ron Howard. Corman's then-assistant, Gale Ann Hurd, connected Goldblatt with James Cameron, which led to their collaboration on mainstream hits including The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and True Lies. Lies led to collaborations with Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay and Paul Verhoeven that comes out of a dialectical montage."He is a member and former vice president and president of the American Cinema Editors as well as a long-standing Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2018, Goldblatt became an ACE Career Achievement Awards honoree.